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Author Topic: Iron Man 2 Stupidity Mark J. Marshall Film God Posts: 3188 From: New Castle, DE, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 05-04-2010 07:11 AM                    I suggest everyone download the torrent and burn it on to a DVD just in case you can't get your cans opened or your digital copies unlocked.  |  IP: Logged Kyle Butler Film Handler Posts: 47 From: Belton, TX Registered: Jan 2010 posted 05-04-2010 07:18 AM                     I was thinking the same thing! I just got a call yesterday. I guess we SHOULD get our keys for the digital by thursday. Unlock time of 2pm thursday (We have a midnight, so i guess were not screening it first?) and the cans... well, she couldn't tell me when we would get them. and she couldn't tell me when the unlock code would work either. Although the original fax said 11am thursday. Either way, its ridiculous. Were getting 6 prints and a digital. They can't possibly expect myself or anybody else to build all six prints on the fly and just hope everything works out. I take pride in my work, but we all make mistakes. This whole locking cans until the last second bullshit really doesn't help any of us cut out theses mistakes. And I care about my job. Imagine how shitty it is for theaters that don't?  |  IP: Logged Michael Voiland Expert Film Handler Posts: 219 From: Naperville, IL US Registered: Aug 2009 posted 05-04-2010 08:27 AM                     I saw one of the technicolor boxes in one of our chains other booths it had a bag that was locked. Like a black canvas zip up bag in the box.  |  IP: Logged Hieu Trung Ngo Film Handler Posts: 16 From: Quincy, MA, USA Registered: Jul 2005 posted 05-04-2010 11:28 AM                     We just got notice that we won't be getting digital drives until Thursday between 1 and 3PM and that keys will not be valid until 1145PM. They will be providing a key to tech reel 1 in digital to ensure proper ingestion....  |  IP: Logged Darryl Spicer Film God Posts: 3250 From: Lexington, KY, USA Registered: Dec 2000 posted 05-04-2010 12:36 PM                    Why are they waiting so long to get the drives to you? It is useless without the key. There should be no reason that a drive can not show up on a Monday to be ingested and then send the keys out on Thursday. I hope you have a central library server because your day will take longer than those putting prints together if you have to ingest on more than one server.  |  IP: Logged Tony Bandiera Jr Film God Posts: 3067 From: Moreland Idaho Registered: Apr 2004 posted 05-04-2010 02:46 PM                     Welcome to the wonderful world of D-Crapema. As for the prints, I would say the studio, if I didn't get the combination to the locks in time to properly build up the show in time they either don't get the shows at all or I'd tell them give me the codes or I'm cutting the locks. I'm willing to bet that worldwide they lose MORE money on lost shows from this nonsense than they lose from the alleged cinema's part in the piracy issue.  |  IP: Logged Dennis Benjamin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1445 From: Denton, MD Registered: Feb 2002 posted 05-04-2010 02:55 PM                        How 'bout that? There is indeed a verified copy of "Iron Man 2" out on the 'Net. It is Russian in origin. But the point is: It's there. Yet they still insist on being idiots about this. Your stupid "Catch a camcorder" program didn't help much. Oh that's right the film was released in other countries first - countries that don't support film anti-theft efforts. FAIL!  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-04-2010 03:05 PM                        quote: I just got a call yesterday. and the cans... well, she couldn't tell me when we would get them. Well whoever called you should have looked at the fax that was sent out. The cans are supposed to be delivered Thursday. Same as any other print.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 05-04-2010 04:20 PM                        Why was it released in other countries first? Does this mean that the USA is not the best any more? I would love to see a theatrically projected DVD of a camcorder copy. The irony would be too awesome... especially if there was a guy in the audience trying to pirate it with his camcorder.  |  IP: Logged Ian Parfrey Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1049 From: Imbil Australia 26 deg 27' 42.66" S 152 deg 42' 23.40" E Registered: Feb 2009 posted 05-04-2010 04:41 PM                     I agree fully with Tony's suggestions. They obviously still haven't learnt from the debacle that German cinemas experienced with the "Avaturd" opening. If any theatres suffer no-shows due to this last minute bullshit, then a politely worded statement pointing out the REFUNDS that had to be given - and then deducted from the takings later that day due to their incompetence - MAY just give these tossers the hint. And just to make it perfectly clear to the studio dipshits who insist on these games... Iron Man 2 is already on Torrents...BEFORE theatrical release! You are too late! Do you now understand?  |  IP: Logged Jonathan Althaus Master Film Handler Posts: 435 From: Bedford, TX Registered: Dec 2008 posted 05-04-2010 06:10 PM                     The reason it was released late in the states is that JJ Abrams secret project (Cloverfield 2?) will have a teaser with the film. Well thats the only sensible reason I can find anyways.  |  IP: Logged Kyle Butler Film Handler Posts: 47 From: Belton, TX Registered: Jan 2010 posted 05-04-2010 08:26 PM                     quote: Mike Blakesley Well whoever called you should have looked at the fax that was sent out. The cans are supposed to be delivered Thursday. Same as any other print. Most of our prints get here tuesday or wednesday. Its fairly rare for us to get prints on thursdays anymore. Lucky me.  |  IP: Logged Hieu Trung Ngo Film Handler Posts: 16 From: Quincy, MA, USA Registered: Jul 2005 posted 05-05-2010 11:39 AM                     I'm actually not sure why they wait so long to let us ingest the content. We had the drive for a screening the other day but just received an email saying that any screening content is not the wide release version and that that version would not work with the wide release keys. So we have to reingest the movie when we get it again. Between this and the IMAX debacle we're currently having at the theatre, we're never going to get these prints teched in time for the midnight shows tomorrow.  |  IP: Logged Bruce McGee Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1776 From: Asheville, NC USA... Nowhere in Particular. Registered: Aug 1999 posted 05-05-2010 06:33 PM                     As was stated earlier, Why are they waiting until the last second to let us even get the hard drive? I thought that digital would put a stop to this crap!  |  IP: Logged Jonathan Althaus Master Film Handler Posts: 435 From: Bedford, TX Registered: Dec 2008 posted 05-05-2010 06:37 PM                     Inbox was flooded with IronMan digital related emails today. They're delivering the drive between 8:30 and 10:30 tomorrow morning. So I'm sure it'll get here at 2pm. The first film will unlock at 6pm, with the second unlocked at 11:45, but does come with a screener key. KDM's arrived early this morning. I smell a disaster.  |  IP: Logged

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